A polar bear and her two-year-old cub on an
ice floe inVaigattfjellet, on Spitsbergen
island.The region is expecting a
record number of tourists - around 39,000 - this year, its
popularity boosted by recent exposure in documentaries such as
Frozen Planet. The island in the
Svalbard archipelago was also the site of a
tragedy last year, when British teenager Horatio Chapple was sadly
killed by a polar bear on an expedition near the Von Postbreen
glacier.